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Guido M Linders^1,2, Max M Louwerse³

¹Department of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands. guido.linders@uzh.ch.

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Summary

Lingualyzer is a new, free tool providing 351 linguistic measures across 41 languages for cross-linguistic research. It supports behavioral scientists lacking computational expertise, enabling text analysis at sentence, paragraph, and document levels.

Keywords:

Computational linguistics Cross-linguistic Multilingual Quantitative linguistics Text analysis

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Area of Science:

Computational linguistics
Behavioral sciences
Interdisciplinary research

Background:

Existing natural language processing tools are predominantly English-centric.
Limited computational linguistic resources are available for non-English languages and cross-linguistic comparisons.
Researchers in behavioral and interdisciplinary fields often lack the computational expertise for advanced text analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Lingualyzer, a freely accessible, multilingual text analysis tool.
To provide researchers with an easy-to-use interface for computational linguistic analysis.
To support cross-linguistic research in behavioral and related sciences.

Main Methods:

Development of Lingualyzer, a web-based platform.
Inclusion of 351 multidimensional linguistic measures.
Support for text analysis across 41 languages at sentence, paragraph, and document levels.

Main Results:

Lingualyzer offers a comprehensive suite of linguistic measures.
The tool is accessible via an intuitive, user-friendly interface.
Validation studies demonstrate the tool's efficacy.

Conclusions:

Lingualyzer bridges the gap in computational linguistic tools for non-English languages.
It empowers researchers without programming skills to conduct sophisticated text analysis.
Facilitates cross-linguistic research and interdisciplinary collaboration.